Sarah Palin angry with President Obama for not starting war with Iran over seizure of ship due to outstanding debt.

So Palin, who has been conspicuously quiet lately, has recently posted this to her Facebook page: 

Friends, please take time to read this article as it rips the veil exposing Obama's priorities in dealing with a nation known for consistent terrorist intentions. Our president and his anti-peace foreign policy supporters have not acted in the interest of our ally, Israel, resulting in dangerously compromised American interests. 

The only thing standing between a president who'd jeopardize our country by ignoring our Constitution, and foes capitalizing on lopsided international treaties that weaken our allies, is Congress. The GOP majority must stop giving lip service to halting liberals' fundamental transformation of our relationships with friendly nations and finally take a stand by exercising its constitutional right and responsibility to approve international treaties. Certainly they must with such grave consequences involved. We must realize Iranian leadership refuses to acknowledge Israel's right to exist, and, in fact is hell-bent on Israel's, and ultimately our, annihilation. Congress must not sit back and watch our own president flirting with the devil. 

- Sarah Palin

This is the picture that she posted with it, why I'm not sure.

Now what seems to have Palin's granny panties all in a crusty knot is a story about the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commandeered the Maersk Tigris as it navigated its way through the Straits of Hormuz. A waterway that is controlled by Iran.

Apparently the conservatives are calling this an act of war against the United States, even though the ship is owned by a Danish shipping company.

However the actual facts of the incident make it seem far less dramatic.

Courtesy of NBC News:

Iran said on Thursday that its seizure of a cargo ship owned by the Danish shipping company Maersk was related to a years-old debt. The company insisted that Iran let the ship go. 

In a statement, the Iranian foreign ministry said that Iran was following international law, and hoped the ship would be released "once debts have been settled, and hopefully the ship can carry on its course." 

The statement said that the 24 crew members aboard the ship, the Maersk Tigris, were in good health and had access to diplomatic channels.

The US has sent military vessels to monitor the situation which seems to be the result of an ongoing court case.

However Palin links to an article from conservative news outlet Townhall which ties this incident together with Obama's ongong negotiations with Iran and his open frustration with the fact that Netanyahu seems to be stepping back from a two state solution with Palestine.

The underlying premise being that President Obama is now siding with Muslims over our friends in Israel, and brokering a deal that makes the Middle East far more dangerous. (You know because up til now the place has been oh so very safe.)

Just another helpful reminder of the bullet (or perhaps more accurately, the barrage of bullets.) we dodged by not electing John McCain and his un-housebroken ankle biting critter from the wilds of Alaska.

Once again Sarah Palin's ghostwriter fails to do her research and writes a Facebook post that makes her employer look like a fool. (To be fair there really IS no way to keep her from looking like a fool. At least not for long.)

So Nancy French, or Ram, or however is looking up hard words for Palin these days put up a post on Facebook yesterday:  

Here's why in almost every one of my speeches or interviews I use the term "Orwellian”.

Palin's ghostwriter then links to an article over at Townhall,  a terrible place full of Obama hatred and little actual journalism, that I try to avoid at all cost

In the Townhall article the author claims that under President Obama we have now entered the world warned about in George Orwell's "1984." You know because it was the Democrats who stole national elections, and started unnecessary wars while lying to the American people,  and of course it was Obama who started the domestic spying program that so many find troubling today.

The ghostwriter, channeling the Wasilla Wendigo,  however did not seem to care about hypocrisy:

As I sit the bleachers today at middle school sports tournaments, I look out at our future and confirm the necessity to get America back on the right road, soon, before it's too late. Please explain this article to your children, as many have been, unfortunately, shielded from reading the staples “Nineteen Eight-Four” and “Animal Farm” in school. (And exactly which groups work to ban these books in public schools Sarah?) Then encourage them by your actions to be engaged and NOT LET IT HAPPEN.

Remembering when Palin actually visited an Animal Farm.

I can assure you right now that Palin most likely has never read a book by George Orwell, and if by some miracle she has, I would bet my house she did not comprehend what she was reading. 

And as for the idea that any of her supporters have the mental capacity to explain the TV Guide, much less this article on "1984," to one of their children, well you know how dimwitted they must be, don't you.

Fortunately for me the great folks over at Wonkette got their teeth in this story ahead of me and dismantled the Townhall article point by point.

However it was the last bit where they decided to spike the ball: 

Victor (Author Victor Davis Hanson) wraps up with what should have been a big finish, but actually falls flat after all the BLAARRRGGGGHHH about how Bamz is Big Brother: both left and right make shit up, but Orwell was more concerned with the left ipso facto ergo Obama bad. Whut? Victor, Victor, Victor. You really do not get this Orwell guy at all: he hated Stalinist communism, but mostly because he hated what it had done to pervert and ruin socialism. In “Why I Write” (1946), he makes it clear that he did not see the glorious free market as the cure for communism: 

The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. 

Got it? George Orwell is not on your side, Victor. 

You see Orwell was not warning about a President using his executive powers to help the country make progress in the face of an obstruction for obstructionism's sake Congress. He was warning against a party that keeps its citizens constantly in fear, attempts to repress their sexuality, and bans access to information that would undermine their control.

None of that sounds like President Obama or the Democratic party.

But I do know which party it DOES sound like and it rhymes with Perublicans.

Of course somehow I think that Palin did NOT want parents to explain the book to their children quite that well.